Vestigial features are legion in the biological world: Wings of flightless birds Extra toe bones of hoofed animals Lesbian sex practiced by certain parthenogenetic lizards Solid-color equines having the genes for zebra stripes Flies sometimes growing legs in place of their antennae and four instead of two wings Baleen whale and cow fetuses having teeth later absorbed Cetacean hipbones Animals with forward-pointing eyes having sideways-pointing eyes as embryos Human toes and "wisdom teeth" Big hind legs of some four-legged dinosaurs Fused bones in many species (why originally separate?) Hollowness of the bones of some flightless birds (dodos, penguins, etc.) Aquatic animals breathing air: sea turtles, sea snakes, sea iguanas, crocodilians, penguins, seals, and cetaceans Fishlike tadpoles of frogs and toads; gill bars in embryos of land vertebrates Human-embryo tails The amniotic sac, a vestige of an eggshell Vestigial legs of some snakes One big lung and one small lung in some snakes Alternation of generation in plants; flowering plants are diploid, but still have a tiny haploid phase Flowers of self-pollinating plants Vestigial flower parts of non-flowering angiosperms, like grasses Mitochondria and chloroplasts in cells; these were apparently once separate cells, and they retain separate genomes and transcription/translation apparatuses. /Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster /lip@s1.gov